The following list of African American heritage sites can help you in building your trip.

• Civil Rights monument — Located on the University of Mississippi campus, the monument includes a statue memorializing James Meredith’s courage and achievement. It sits in front of the Lyceum Building, where bullet holes lodged there during the Ole Miss riots have been preserved.
  
• Blues Archives, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi — The world’s largest repository of blues recordings and other blues materials, including B. B. King’s musical papers.
  
• Old Burns Church/Belfry Building — Situated in an area once known as Freedmen Town, the former church is being renovated as an African American museum and cultural center.
  
• Second Baptist Church — Founded by both Baptist and Methodist ex-slaves in a brush arbor in 1869.

• Rust College — Located on the former site of slave auctions, the college today houses more than 400 pieces of African art, sculptures and masks in the Ronald Trojcak African Art Collection.
  
• Ida B. Wells Museum — Located in the historic Spires Bolling home, the museum houses a variety of family heirlooms as well as historic African American artifacts.
  
• Hillcrest Cemetery — Burial site for Hiram Revels.
  
• Cotter Cemetery — Burial ground for a number of area’s prominent African American citizens.

• Freedman’s Camp — The site of the former Contraband Camp spreads over 21 acres with pedestrian promenades and interpretive exhibits.
  
• Black History Museum

• Howlin’ Wolf Museum — Located in the city’s Friday House Museum; there is also a memorial statue in the city park.

• Catfish Alley — Once the central meeting and business district for the city’s African American population.
  
• Concord CME Church — One of the oldest churches in Columbus that still exists today, established in 1867.
  
• Farmers Market — The first store owned and operated by the colonial merchant William Cooper, known as the “Big Black Tanner” to the Chickasaw.
  
• The Haven — Home built by freedmen Isaac and Thomas Williams in 1843.
  
• W. I. Mitchell Home site — Location of the home of the first black principal of Union Academy as well as president of Penny-Savings Bank.
  
• Missionary Union Baptist Church — The oldest African American church in Northeast Mississippi, established in 1833.
  
• Queen City Hotel Site — A center for culture and commerce from the early to the middle part of the twentieth century.
  
• Penny-Savings Bank — The city’s first bank established for African Americans.
  
• Sandfield Cemetery — Burial site for a number of prominent African American leaders.
  
• Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — Established in 1821.
  
• Union Academy site — First African American school established in 1877 at the site of a former Confederate Arsenal.
  
• Robert Walker Home Site — Site of the home of the owner of the Queen City Hotel.
  
• Dr. Theodoric V. James Home — Home of the city’s first African American physician, still owned by his descendants. 

• Oprah Winfrey Road — A number of Oprah-related sites, including:  the Buffalo Community Church, where Oprah was nicknamed the Preacher; the Buffalo Community Center; the Winfrey family cemetery; and Oprah’s birthplace.

• Belle Flower Missionary Baptist Church — Headquarters where leaders like the Reverend Martin Luther King and Andrew Young gathered in 1966 for Southern Christian Leadership Conference project to integrate Grenada schools.